Rough Deeds
During the next decade, Duquet began to acquire tracts of woodland in Maine. From time to time, Duquet would join Forgeron in the Maine woods to explore …
"Leasing a Dutchman's ships was well enough, but he needed ships of his own." Proulx's Duquet trades secretly with the English despite colonial prohibitions. Fifty acres of oak were needed to build one seventy-four-gun warship. The hardwood stands began to fall to his ambitions.